and not soft, queer, still keeping another age system where a person's age is calculated from 0 at the like the international norm. but a year is added every january 1st, instead of on the date of birth, that system will still be used for compulsory military service. the school year and then determining the legal age for drinking and smoking. i was worried that i would be fans from drinking, but i'm relieved i can still drink soft, queer now and joins all the east asian countries who dropped the traditional age counting method. decades ago, so it's 3 to 0. the your headlines on elsa's 0. the un security council has postponed a vote on ending the peacekeeping mission and molly, it was due to be held on thursday. molly's military government is demanding. the withdrawal or diplomatic edits of james bass has more from the united nations. it

makes the question if, for example, in 2 weeks time when the machine is technically closed, there is some sort of incident where civilians need protection or un humanitarian workers or, and guys from, from international or local and just need some sort of protection will to you and come to the aid at that point. this is going to be a very difficult uh exit. uh, because normally as a say, when a peacekeeping operation happens, there is a peace in the country. there is no peace in molly. its been getting more dangerous for a frances increasing security in the capital after police shot dead, a teenager, the 17 year old, was killed in his vehicle on tuesday. riots broke out the overnight and the power suburb of no sale with dozens of people arrested presidents and many other mac who has called the shooting unforgivable 11 people have been killed in a russian missile. now striking the eastern ukraine, the restaurant was hits in cremmit doors. russia is denied targeting civilians for the north and car keys. 3 people were killed by showing

a ceasefire incident or mark the occasion of aid is reported to have been violated . the army has launched airstrikes against the rapids afford forces across on the mind. and cartoon number of civilians are reported to have been killed for armenian soldiers have been killed in the disputed region of new going oak our back as are by john and armenia have been holding talks. those talks mediated by the us to end a decades long conflict. the armenian prime minister has one of a further risk of destabilization. if the issue is not result in around 2000000000 muslims around the world are celebrating, either it takes place on the 3rd day of the hush and saudi arabia is here as pilgrimage. is the 1st since pandemic restrictions with those are your headlines on alpha 0 as always are website alpha 0 dot com carries all our latest stories up next road to hush

a round you and going it's easy to spot the shunted offices of foreign businesses, your restrictions have been imposed by the military on the currency exchange and the local currency is coming to them then the boat shuttling goods across the molly river from thailand carry everything from cooking oil to expensive japanese fruits . businesses booming because of shortages inside man. but so if prices so many people, those prices are unsustainably, huge rises in the cost of living for centrals like food and transport, forcing them into extreme poverty. people in young going confinement since camilla chick k prices on public transport double services. the building was the one sector is booming. this year the ministry of agriculture names to an a $1000000000.00 to rice exports a nation. well, when in full people didn't have enough to eat, sending food over seas,

the government revenue, the japan land of the rising stars, the nation in contrast were modern technology and time owners culture co exist side by side. the japan remains the traditional society with strong social hierarchy. the many traditions are under pressure as a younger generation turned to outside influences, ideas the here in this predominantly buddhist society. islam is taking root among some japanese, some of whom would be journeying to america for the you will,

has pilgrimage. the . 1 amid the hustle and bustle of daily life in japan's capital, you take care of the movement pool to prayer can be heard each day in a few corners of the 6 the there are

about 15 mosques in japan, and there are some 100 with sunless or communal prayer rooms like this one in the tokyo suburb of sight, thomas, it was built more than 15 years ago by bangladesh. he muslim workers, many of whom made japan their home. the young man here on the left is the only ethnic japanese member of their congregation. the. his name is cooper said, he's 26 years old and lives about 2 hours outside of tokyo who is the only child in his family and lives with his parents. a lot, that's a lot of money, but you often when you're only innocent, a token you circle things for you. and then when i say to psycho, going to go to good us to go by setting up a custom goal that i set that up. okay. so you feel in your boss, you get this what up the ticket the i'm assuming. yes. and that's only gonna look

like most stephanie, who, who son was brutal in the spiritual traditions of simple and buddhism, seemed to is the indigenous religion of japan. and throughout history, it has provided the backbone of japanese culture the, the scene to see reviews, nature. there are no secret icons or books and no group worship. instead, followers draw their duties from nature worshipping the rocks, trees, wind, and sun off to the 2nd world war seemed to have suffered, assessed by when the emperor was forced to renounce his divinity as the living god . that's why, in the sense of religion may have decreased after the war. many japanese su professor, belief in both shinta and buddhism. the japanese learned intensely private people,

especially when it comes to matters of religion. the law. so they said, i'm in hiding in my home to call you on the coming that i saw on the spelling to me . i'm funny. don't worry about not kind of hired on. i saw from edison, almost day stuff to run and i kind of hide on the tech side of the list,

the next step. but as i've seen the since the line demo of microsoft, which is a go. so utility scale. so you know, i cannot use seems to cut off plus cutting auditorium caught up and they'll come to my special. you know, next i'm going to arrange for the some of the, one of those who helps google some better understand islam is what are the, can know you who this year will be helping people sun on to take the has pilgrimage to mecca. then she said, look, i have no religion before it came on the scene. few if any it has pilgrims from japan, made it to mecca to a call in the moon in going on business. so it's going to show

me from fee on the market. tourism quin fee and that's the t v i should talk to the cost in the market. my sides from addition is the, the preferred alarm additional cleaning for less than happy to be less than haven't yelled the in the product of having to come in either way to the flow through the is egypt sin and was a lawyer in cairo before he came to japan, in his twenty's he worked for a travel agency and decided to branch out to form his own agency to take care of japanese muslim pilgrim. and it was an uphill struggle from the start. made all the more difficult when the saudi authorities said they did not believe him and his manager was given for the missing. and then if you could give me in the going to

another i as as, and then i have any. and i didn't see a live in the around us in the city, and then what i, i'm attending the of, and i don't know you can go stuff out of what when bishop look mostly eh, anonymous man. just give me the last a real losers a minute. and so it's sometimes when you're origin, does the procedure fix about city? i want us sometimes stick to a lot of sometimes in my class to you are my sons. i had to stay

on the same seat for 16 hours for the persisted in his quest to help pilgrims from japan to america 5 years on the travel agency he set up as one of only 2 registered companies that have been sanctioned by the saudi government to organize, has pilgrimages for japanese muslims over the years. has managed to increase the number of muslim pilgrims from japan performing the has i think his goal is that the majority of these kilograms will be ethnic japanese. now we're talking about 90 percent. and essentially we need to make it over that is to make 90 percent of the companies and maybe 99 percent or as much of an ease. and one percent for for a is about to has use as credentials

as instant message. but it had yet to go to jet and why the dominant means you own the people to the highest you make as a and a loving. this is very long way to go, but i can finish. we can do the ladies, one of them well, actually, quizzically told him, well enough to hold, we must feed them in a while suddenly she i'll look up the log on the head whenever he spoke to me. i wouldn't hold him from us for the income

you and i live the most the mutual fee, the room is gradually establishing itself in japan, $100.00 like of the la talkie or pioneering the way smack in the middle of tokyo's infamous red light district and couple kito is a little apartment that has been converted into a communal prayer room. 36 year old up, the low tucking leads to prayers here. when he was younger, he was into body piercing. with no, he finds a new way to express himself. oh, the so this is the machine or the on

the a 100 or less than i live in the yeah, i mean yeah, i got all the last on that list, the lady him or i had it and not all the way you know so many hundreds of them will come side to the need, cooling fees, you out of the credit because when i had to let these and kind of see how to solve dollar, not a lot of us. i shall be in the book. i'm the of the, in recent decades the japanese have been exposed to other religions. the orthodox,

anton orthodontics that differ from center islam is still considered relatively unfamiliar with and recent years, young japanese men like google sun and i've done the talk. you have been drawn towards it from done the works and it gets it shop in central tokyo. his introduction to islam came unexpectedly on the bank. you will see a little more, but it's on the congo almost to my discipline with us in the email. but uh yeah. could you and then would i my, my mother, is there anything with him or someone who do i need to come up or not something that i could do to. so the whole month will do it in a couple months regarding must have someone clicking on the date that i fill out a to fill out a scenario to move in the image of the funding i must from will come in new uh, new home with the high duddy, most of that. so when you home with that card that end up on you, uh, uh,

on the home of the cindy, talk into the most, someone's it into about this through with us and what you said on the queue. and then you go ahead and get us in the us. it did that, but uh, a quoted i use it on the 2 and then the one that says that. so this one, the more uh some better for the size of the city in 2006 up to spending many years reading up on islam. and go into the mosque on his own. i've done that, decided to take this step to embrace as long as he undertook the has pilgrimage in 2007. it was the culmination of his religious conversion. so this initial degree, me to still, you know, how do some of cub old mean you can with the, the, from the coming don't you come in with tubs in the, the a lot as it was on the hudson. as i started the hudson a to look and come to isn't the mother so little and you say from the community. so

this was the endorses. lucky some luck on your height of my this and then on our school to the united from the knock i didn't. so let me come from this age, tell you what it is to hold on your height the can you mounted on? so do an or mid and me and my for the school get it on there must go to look at the photo cost of taking the from and to be have to he hasn't made that like any, is into that. i mean the taking less than the stuff in the car about the customer. i thought to meet him, i talked to him and then it goes through from the opal noise and we'll get that to do next. and then you've got some in, i'm one of the, one of the, put in this is an experienced with new confidence, like who, who wants to go through themselves. who sounds conversion to as love receives a mixed response at home, or personal costs. i'll decimal place it online. okay, so you most committed to family? not quite that. can we get them to create a most demo, additional thoughts out loud enough. so hutton a to police that i'm not,

i'm any guy continued those single single at the 2nd. like i said, i'm in height to continue. my sinuses are the most and how do i, you know, unless you're contacting us in a work oriented culture like to come, it is difficult for muslims holding down to time jobs to go on the highs, pilgrimage, unable to get permission for an extended leave period from his employer who son had to quit his job to allow him to time to undertake the fuzz. practicing islam in japan remains a challenge. but he said i lost some money on the call in the home that the guessing that somebody just took. okay. no setup for that to come up under the car . none of that is gonna allow me to go to spanish. so he to go to and talk to us and i told a nice listening with less than say the us and i was like, i am a minute. i couple about a little for the, for the

sun comes from a society that is famous for its advance technology and ports materialistic value, the own depending this way of life is this due to and this is also not immediately obvious. so let's say i want this guy, like i said, i'm 23 this done. oh my god, in the quarter this gonna take the new home that they've got to coordinate with an external jungle. they are the most unless it guys took a lot of this just so look at. they might just sit on the housing, but this will be less than a day. so i'm not going to my sit on the only on that expect guy said i'm the only one showed up, the guy said i'm unable to connect with the guy said i'm going to lunch to going to income updates. like i said, it was like, i'm doing it so they gotta do it and i guess it going to a go up. they took up. so you know, if this is only cold from

a source to now i said on the ceiling that you don't like it assuming that book. so you can tell me what my specific on my so i'm in a phone book, a guy got put it on the sky. got it. so i know you're on the west bennett, so you're telling me on the stuff like i've done the google sans contact with muslims in japan started mainly with the experience muslim community. the. * the here and to accuse come the most diverse atlantic community gathers in worship the, the each friday muslims originate sinks in the middle east and asia pray together in this beautiful

most model on the blue mosque intact. the focus on the interaction and friendships with these core and listenings help him better understand as well. so that's the name of the for the sake of cutting my space around with you on those, you know, your party's extension regarding the setup, the kitchen and the kindergarten to, to get by going the one of us getting more, i like it out loud. and i see it has nothing to do. i assume that there hasn't been cut them. i'm going to 9 day old place to create that kind of the way up, but it was sitting and not the cutting. and i have to cut on your email sending me a lot of that. so come later when they call me or you know, need to come down and fix the cost of like the attorney up putting them in. they'll say got staying or contacting us. but the,

it's the day of departure. rita takes the express train to narita airport with the pilgrims are waiting for him. the . he runs a one man, so handling the travel and logistical needs of a 120 pilgrims. sir, 2 of them already left 2 days earlier on this trip there was 7 japanese muslims going along. all of them for the 1st time, the the worker who said this moment is something he has been waiting for since he became

a most of the for the it's a continuation of the mission he began 5 years ago. is when he went to seat in the field and either continue to dc growing up. i can see something coming up from the seats, which is not the 3. it's is it's really easy to be talking. but we scored most

people to 20 years from now. maybe i'm not here, but i can see that is organization with taken care of the has the as the ministry or i see in single border or in the see. the sun is on his way to america. one individual who will be part of the largest annual pilgrimage in the world he expects his own route, the has helped him reaffirm his muslim identity and inspire him in the way he has chosen. c c look to look pretty sit on the 10th, the guessing doesn't age anything regarding the setup, but have to come out today tomorrow to go spend a story to go to and talk to us. and i am always listening with best in the say got

to talk to somebody.